Understand
In 2015, the LHCb collaboration endorsed the proposal to pursue an ambitious heavy-ion physics program.
- In 2013, LHCb has demonstrated its capabilities to operate successfully in p-Pb and Pb-p collisions, leading already to several important publications in the field.
- The measurements of the nuclear modification factor and forward-backward production of prompt and displaced J/$\psi$, $\psi$(2S) and $\Upsilon$(1S) states, as well as the production of prompt $D^{0}$ mesons, have allowed to extend the knowledge of Cold Nuclear Matter effects on open heavy flavours and quarkonium production.
- The measurement of Z-boson production, important to constrain nuclear PDFs, and the measurement of two-particle angular correlations, probing collective effects in the dense environment of high energy collisions, have also been performed.